Dorothy Reed Mendenhall Papers, 1805-1988
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Dorothy Reed Mendenhall Papers
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Mendenhall, Dorothy Reed, 1874-1964
Biographical History for: Dorothy Reed Mendenhall Papers
Biographical Note Dorothy Reed Mendenhall, circa 1903 Dorothy Mabel Reed Mendenhall, born in Columbus, Ohio on September 22, 1874, was the second daughter and third and youngest child of Grace Kimball and William Pratt Reed and an important link in a long lineage of prominence and privilege. All four of Mendenhall's grandparents' families--the Kimballs, the Reeds, the Talcotts, and the Temples--traced their origins back to New England in the 1630s. Mendenhall was particularly proud of the fact that the Reed family could document its direct descendence from Thomas Dudley and Dorothy Yorke and their daughter, the poet, Anne Bradstreet, who came to Massachusetts Bay on the Arabella in 1632, and that her Talcott relatives were direct descendents of John Talcott. He had arrived had in Cambridge in 1632 and, in 1636, built the first house in Hartford, Connecticut. Her great-grandfather Richard Kimball surveyed parts of the Northwest Territory after the American Revolution and was paid for his services with grants of land. He, in turn, passed along forty acre plots of land in Cleveland, Canton, and Columbus, Ohio to his sons. By the mid-nineteenth century the Kimballs, were prominent figures in Ohio politics and society. Mendenhall's maternal grandfather, Hannibal Kimball, made his fortune in shoe and boot manufacturing. Her father William Reed joined Hannibal Kimball in his business in 1858 and, in 1867, married his eldest daughter. Mendenhall spent her early years living with her parents, her sister Elizabeth, her brother William Reed Jr., and numerous aunts, uncles and cousins on the Kimball estate on the East side of Columbus. When William Reed Sr. died from complications of diabetes and tuberculosis in 1880 he left an estate worth several hundred thousand dollars. Mendenhall's early education consisted of tutoring by her grandmother at home, drawing classes at the Columbus Art School, and, in the late 1880s, private teaching by her governess Anna Gunning, in Columbus and, later, in Berlin. Her first formal education began in 1891 when she entered Smith College, where she earned her B.L. in 1895. During her last year of college Mendenhall's family began to experience serious financial troubles due to wreckless spending by her mother and brother, and her sister's chronic illness and bad marriage. From this time on she played a central role in the management of the family finances. It was in large part due to the need to earn money to support herself and her family that she decided to enter newly opened Johns Hopkins University Medical School (one of first to admit women) and pursue a medical career She spent a year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1895-96 to complete required science courses and entered Johns Hopkins University Medical School in 1896 along with several other women students such as Florence Sabin and Gertrude Stein (who later dropped out). During summer of 1898 she and her classmate Margaret Long became the first women to work for a U.S. Naval Hospital when they assisted in treating Spanish/American War casualties at Brooklyn Navy Yard Hospital. Mendenhall excelled at Johns Hopkins and, after graduating fourth in her class in 1900, she was awarded a prestigious internship at Johns Hopkins Hospital, serving under Dr. William Osler. The next year she became a Pathology fellow there under the direction of Dr. William Welch. During this period Mendenhall taught bacteriology, assisted at autopsies and undertook research on Hodgkin's disease. She made her best recognized contribution to medical science when she discovered the cell that is a primary characteristic of Hodgkins disease and effectively disproved the common belief that the disease was a form of tuberculosis. Mendenhall's findings, published in 1902, brought her international acclaim and the cell became known as the Reed cell (also called the Sternberg-Reed and Reed-Sternberg cell). During the years of her fellowship at Johns Hopkins, Mendenhall had a passionate and tumultuous relationship with another pathologist, Dr. William MacCallum. Despite his professions of love for her, MacCallum repeatedly pursued other women and his infidelities ultimately drove Mendenhall to break off the relationship. She later wrote that it was her desire to make a clean break with McCallum, more than the difficulties she faced as a woman in her field, that induced her to abandon pathology and to accept an interim residency at New York Infirmary for Women and Children. At the conclusion of that post Mendenhall made the decision to pursue pediatrics and, in January of 1903 she became the first resident physician at Babies Hospital in New York City. Later that year her sister Elizabeth died after a long struggle with tuberculosis and Dorothy, who had already been supporting her mother, also took on the financial responsibility for Elizabeth's three children, Dorothy, Hart, and Ordway Furbish, ages nine, seven and six. Dorothy Mendenhall first met Charles Elwood Mendenhall, son of the well-known scientist Thomas Mendenhall and Susan Allen Mendenhall, in her youth when both lived in Columbus. The two maintained a friendship over the years and, when both were students at Johns Hopkins in the late 1890s, they frequently spent time hiking together in the Baltimore countryside. Charles carried a torch for Dorothy and proposed to her numerous times over the years. Finally, in 1904, after MacCallum came to New York to try to win her back, Dorothy decided to escape her difficult personal and professional situation by marrying Charles and creating a "normal home and family life" with him. After a tentative engagement Dorothy married Charles on Valentine's Day 1906 in her mother's old family home in Talcottville, New York. The two had an extended honeymoon in Europe and then returned to Madison, Wisconsin, where Charles taught physics at the University of Wisconsin. By this time Dorothy was already in the midst of her first pregnancy and she did not try to reestablish her career in Madison, planning instead to stay at home bearing and raising children. Her first child Margaret, born on Feb 19, 1907, died one day after her birth due to brain damage from her traumatic delivery, which also left Mendenhall suffering from pelvic injuries and puerperal sepsis. Her second child, Richard, survived his 1908 birth only to die before his second birthday from a fall off the roof of the family home in November of 1910. In between the births of Thomas, in 1910, and John, in 1913, Mendenhall's mother Grace Kimball Reed also died unexpectedly. Mendenhall's grief over these deaths complicated her already difficult transition from prominent professional woman to wife and mother, and exacerbated the problems of her disappointing marital relationship. During these years she was miserable and depressed. Mendenhall began the second phase of her career in 1914 when she became a lecturer in the Department of Home Economics at the University of Wisconsin. Motivated by the circumstances of Margaret's birth and death and John's precarious nutritional status during infancy, Mendenhall devoted herself to the issues of maternal and infant health, particularly reducing infant mortality rates by providing prenatal care, and educating others about the importance of infant and early childhood nutrition. In addition to teaching, she also organized the first infant welfare clinic in the state in Madison in 1915. Her successes in this line of work--perhaps best exemplified by Madison's status as the U.S. city with the lowest infant mortality rate--ultimately lead her to other appointments including those in the extension schools of the University of Chicago and Utah State Agricultural College. During WWI, when Charles Mendenhall went to work for the U.S. government in Washington D.C., Dorothy Mendenhall was recruited by the U.S. Children's Bureau. In her capacity as a medical officer with the Children's Bureau during the years from 1917 to 1936 she did comprehensive studies of war orphanages in Belgium and France, and nutritional studies of Children in England. She also worked on a nationwide drive to weigh and measure all children under six in order to call attention to the prevalence of malnutrition and develop norms for height and weight from birth through age six. Mendenhall wrote numerous influential publications on children's health care and nutrition and, in 1926, she visited Denmark to compare the infant and maternal mortality rates there with those in the U.S. During that visit she observed the successes of the Danish midwifery movement and became a proponent of childbirth without unnecessary medical interventions. This very successful second career renewed Mendenhall's sense of herself as a valuable successful professional woman. By the late 1910s the combination of motherhood and fulfilling work gave her a sense of purpose which made her marriage more satisfying as well. As her children grew, Mendenhall managed her household and family much like she managed her career. She frequently reminded her sons that they were "her life's work" and emphasized their obligation to meet her very high expectations. Her early experiences with the difficult consequences of her family's squandered wealth caused her a great deal of anxiety about financial matters but also made her a shrewd investor. Despite her constant worries about spending money, however, she was never without a great deal of household help, including maids, nannies, and cooks, of whom she was also very demanding. In 1934, when John was an undergraduate at Harvard and Tom a Ph.D. student in history at Yale, Charles Mendenhall was diagnosed with prostate cancer. After a difficult battle with the illness he died in Madison in August of 1935. Despite the apparent passionlessness of their marriage, the Mendenhalls had become loving companions over the years; Dorothy was clearly lonely after Charles's death. Nevertheless, she continued her professional work, took over sole management of the family's finances and investments, and became more demanding of her children than ever before. By the late 1930s she had already begun to refer to herself as an old woman with only a few years to live. Though she accused her sons of neglecting her in her old age, Tom and John, their wives Cornelia and Sally, and their children actually remained closely involved in her life. Mendenhall also maintained many long-time friendships, such as with her college friend Louisa Fast and, between 1936 and the 1950s, traveled frequently with friends to Mexico, Central America, California, North Carolina and other destinations. By the early 1960s her health began to fail and she was hospitalized repeatedly, though she continued to live independently through 1963. After nearly thirty years of predicting her immanent death Dorothy Reed Mendenhall died of arteriosclerotic heart disease in Chester, Connecticut on July 31, 1964 at the age of eighty-nine. For additional biographical information see: Jean Bergman, "Dorothy Reed Mendenhall," State Historical Society of Wisconsin Women's Auxiliary, Famous American Women, 6 (1976), 48-53. Penina Migdal Glazer and Miriam Slater, "Motherhood and Medicine," in Unequal Colleagues: The Entrance of Women into the Professions, 1890-1940 (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1986). Elizabeth Robinton, "Dorothy Reed Mendenhall" in Notable American Women: The Modern Period. Obituaries appear in the Madison, WI Capital Times on July 31, 1964 and the Wisconsin State Journal, August 1, 1964.
Scope and Contents of the Collection The Dorothy Reed Mendenhall Papers consist of {7.5} linear feet of material, dating from 1805 to 1988. The bulk of the papers date from 1890 to 1957 and focus on Mendenhall's personal and professional life. Types of materials include personal records, family records, personal and family correspondence, legal documents, lectures, sketches, and drawings, printed material, personal memorabilia, photographs, and published and unpublished writings. Major subjects reflected in the collection are women's education, medical education, public health, and the status and role of women in the U.S. Organizations represented in the collection include the Johns Hopkins University Hospital, the United States Children's Bureau, the University of Wisconsin and the Visiting Nurse Association Child Health Centers of Madison, Wisconsin, and the Wisconsin Board of Health. The papers offer insight into the life of a privileged woman who, as one of the early graduates of the rigorous and professional medical education at Johns Hopkins Medical School, made pioneering contributions to the fields of pathology, public health, maternal infant health, pediatrics, and nutrition while also balancing the demands of her own home and family life. In addition to documenting Mendenhall's life and work the papers document major twentieth century historical trends including the changing roles of women and the penetration of scientific concepts into housekeeping, childrearing, and other aspects of daily life.
Childbirth--History--20th century--Sources
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Children--Nutrition--History--20th century--Sources
Hodgkin's disease--Research
Infants--Mortality--History--Sources
Maternal and infant welfare--History--20th century--Sources
Maternal health services--History--20th century--Sources
Medical education--United States--History--Sources
Abbott, Grace, 1878-1939--Correspondence
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Lathrop, Julia Clifford, 1858-1932--Correspondence
Lenroot, Katherine--Correspondenc
Long, Margaret--Correspondence
MacCallum, W. G. (William George), 1874-1944--Correspondence
Mendenhall, Charles Elwood, 1872-1935
Mendenhall, Thomas Corwin
Pratt, Elsie Seelye
Welch, William Henry, 1850-1934--Correspondence
Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972--Correspondence
Thomas, M. Carey (Martha Carey), 1857-1935--Correspondence
Reed family
Mendenhall family
Talcott family
Smith College--Students--History--Sources
United States. Children's Bureau--History--Sources
University of Wisconsin--Madison--History--Sources
Johns Hopkins University. School of Medicine--History--Sources
Europe--Description and travel--19th century
series
SERIES I. BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL (1874-1988)
This series includes a variety of material by and about Dorothy Reed Mendenhall that documents her personal and professional experiences, including both her accomplishments and her struggles. It is arranged in the following eight subseries: Writings about Mendenhall, Education, Professional credentials, Legal documents, Financial documents, Personal records, Memorabilia, and Photographs. The bulk of the material in this series dates from 1891-1950s. Writings about Mendenhall includes two short biographical sketches and three brief accounts of Mendenhall's life. Her own autobiographical writings, written between 1939 and 1955, give the fullest picture of the events of her life and her feelings about them. Personal records contains drawings and writings from Mendenhall's childhood as well as other diaries, records and lists she saved over the course of her life. Photographs contains rich visual documentation of her life from her childhood in the 1870s to her old age in the 1950s, of her family, and of her environments and friendships at Smith College and Johns Hopkins University Hospital.
SERIES II. FAMILY (1805-1938)
This series contains family records, memorabilia, and third party correspondence written by and received by various members of Mendenhall's family (including extended family) between 1805 and 1938. It is arranged in three subseries: Genealogical material, Individuals, and Legal and financial records. Genealogical material consists of notes and family trees Mendenhall put together in the course of researching her background and especially her relationship to the Dudley and Bradstreet families of seventeenth century Boston. Individuals is arranged alphabetically with material about miscellaneous family members filed at the end of the subseries. Each person's file contains various types of material by or about them including biographical material, correspondence, and memorabilia. Among the richest material in this series are the letters, poems, and sketches that came from her maternal grandmother Adaline Talcott Kimball and her family. In addition to documenting Talcott and Kimball family history this material sheds considerable light on Adaline Talcott Kimball's experiences as a young white woman growing up in upstate New York, dealing with potential suitors, and wrestling with some of the various intellectual trends that swirled around the United States in the 1830s and 1840s. Legal and financial records contains material that documents the accumulation of wealth and status in the Talcott and Kimball families between 1811 and the 1930s.
SERIES III. CORRESPONDENCE (1891-1962)
This series contains personal and professional correspondence, dating from 1891 to 1962 and is organized into two subseries: Family and Friends and associates. Family consists of correspondence with members of Mendenhall's immediate and extended family dating from 1891 to 1962 and arranged alphabetically. Mendenhall's letters to her mother Grace Kimball Reed date from 1896 to 1911 and are a particularly rich source of information about her daily life and thoughts and struggles during her days as a student, her years as a medical intern and resident in Baltimore and New York, and her difficult life as a new wife and mother in Madison, Wisconsin. Mendenhall's letters to her son Thomas Corwin Mendenhall Jr. and his wife Cornelia Baker Mendenhall, especially those written between 1938 and 1962, are a similarly rich source of information about her retirement years and her old age. Friends and associates includes a small amount of general correspondence consisting of letters from friends and colleagues who were not regular correspondents dating from 1901-60, the bulk of which are sympathy letters Mendenhall received in 1935 after her husband's death. This subseries consists primarily of material from friends and colleagues who corresponded regularly with Mendenhall between 1891 and 1957. Significant signatories include Bryn Mawr College president M. Carey Thomas and Mendenhall's distant cousin, the writer Edmund Wilson.
SERIES IV. PROFESSIONAL MATERIAL (1898-1956)
This series documents Dorothy Mendenhall's professional life from her internship at Johns Hopkins University Medical School in 1900 to her work for public health in the 1950s. The material is arranged according to the institution that administered it. Because Mendenhall often worked for more than one employer at a time, the institutions are arranged alphabetically as follows: Babies Hospital, Johns Hopkins University, United States Children's Bureau, United States Naval Yard Hospital, University of Chicago, University of Wisconsin, and Utah State Agricultural College. Types of material include correspondence, minutes, newspaper clippings, notes, printed material, and reports. The bulk of the material in this series consists of lectures, notes, and syllabi and examinations from Mendenhall's appointments at the University of Chicago and the University of Wisconsin.
SERIES V. PUBLICATIONS (1901-1937)
This series contains material relating to Dorothy Reed Mendenhall's many publications in the areas of pathology, maternal-infant health, pediatrics, public health, and children's nutrition between 1901 and 1937. Final published versions of the articles and pamphlets she wrote are arranged chronologically. Each publication is arranged with relevant correspondence, drafts, drawings and photographs, and other related material.
Writings about DRM
Short biographies, 1945, n.d.
Newspaper clippings, 1930-41
Autobiography
Handwritten manuscript with typewritten transcription, written over the period 1939-55
Early years to 1886
1887 trip to Europe, to 1891 entrance into Smith
1888-90, Talcottville
1891-95, Smith College
1896-1900, Johns Hopkins medical school
1898 Second summer, Spanish American War
1900-02, Intern, fellow, A.J.
1903-06, Life in New York City
1902, 1906-35, Marriage, Trips Abroad, CEM's death
1913-19, Early Extension work, Children's Bureau
1926-29, Europe
Business, money, England, Scotland, Guatemala, 1935-38 (typescript only)
World War II, Madison, Tryon, 1944-49
1946-53, Last contemplations
Handwritten manuscripts, 1950s
Reminiscences, 1935-57, n.d.
Scholarly and journalistic accounts of DRM's life and work
Gena Corea, "Dorothy Reed Mendenhall; "Childbirth is not a Disease," Ms. magazine, April 1974
"Dorothy Reed Mendenhall Scholarship Fund is Legacy of Remarkable Woman's Life," The Hopkins Advocate, v. 5, n. 3, Summer, 1988
"Dorothy Reed Mendenhall, A Woman Pioneer in American Medicine," unpublished paper by. E.M. Lawton, n.d.
Education
Columbus Art School: diploma, 1888
Smith College
Course material
Themes
Literature notebook, 1892
Outline for Bible course, circa 1894
Diploma, 1895
[see OVERSIZE MATERIALS]
Honorary Doctorate: correspondence, diploma map, program, and song, 1929-30
[see also OVERSIZE MATERIALS]
Printed material: catalog and songbook, 1894-95
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: correspondence and grades, 1895-96
Johns Hopkins University Medical School
General: correspondence, newspaper clippings, printed material, 1894-1947
Lecture notes, 1896-1900
Drawings, 1896-1900
Diploma, 1900
[see OVERSIZE MATERIAL]
Professional credentials
Physician's license, state of New York, 1902
Physicians license, state of Wisconsin, 1916
Certificate of appointment as a delegate for the state of Wisconsin to the Annual Meeting of the Child Hygiene Association, 1920
Certificate of appointment as U.S. delegate to the Fifth English-speaking Conference on Maternity and Child Welfare in London, issued by the U.S. State Department in Apr. 1929
Legal documents
Passports, 1926, 1929
Wills, 1936-50
Financial documents
Account books, 1890-98, 1930
Travel receipts, 1938-41, n.d.
Personal records
Calendars, 1953-55
Childhood writings and sketches: drawings, notes, poems, and themes, 1886, 1890, n.d.
Contacts: address book and notes, n.d.
Diaries, 1890-94, 1938
Garden notebook, 1939-50
Invitations and party lists, 1906-50
Medical records: correspondence, prescription, and receipt, 1910-36
Memberships, 1892-1928, n.d.
Notes and lists
T.S. Eliot: newspaper clippings and notes, 1949, n.d.
Rudyard Kipling: newspaper clippings, notes, and themes, n.d.
Miscellaneous notes, n.d.
Prayers, 1907-55
Memorabilia: business cards, drawings, garden plan, hair, hymnal, invitations, menus, notes, programs, and ration books, 1896-40s, n.d.
Photographs
DRM alone
Youth, 1879-93
Adulthood (including photo of bust sculpted by Joy Buba), 1894-1967, n.d.
Family
Individuals
Baker, Laura Ann, n.d.
Furbish, Elizabeth Reed, n.d.
Kimball, Carroll, n.d.
Kimball, Eliza, n.d.
Kimball, Hannibal, n.d.
Mendenhall, Bethany at three months, 1940
Mendenhall, Charles E. circa 1882-1920s
Mendenhall, Richard 1911
Reed, Grace Kimball, 1895
Reed, William Pratt circa 1850, n.d.
Talcott, Adaline, n.d.
Talcott, Hezekiah, n.d.
Groups
Baker, Adaline, Rosalind, Helen, and Laura, with Lodemia Talcott, n.d.
DRM and Elizabeth Reed, circa 1888
DRM and Dorothy Reed Furbish, 1900-05
DRM with Charles/Thomas/John Mendenhall, 1906-61
Thomas and John Mendenhall with 4 unidentified people, 30 May 1919
Friends
Austin, Mabel F., n.d.
Bigelow, Laura, n.d.
MacCallum, William, 1901
Boem, Caroline Mitchell, n.d.
Lathrop, Julia, n.d.
Long, Margaret, circa 1890s and n.d.
Strong, Mary, 1905
Woods, Eleanor Bush, 1896
DRM with Smith College friends, 1893-1900
DRM and others on a walking trip in New York state during medical school, circa late 1890s
DRM with Miss Wheeler, Atlantic City, 1904
DRM with unidentified man, circa 1904
DRM with three unidentified people standing in front of car, 1929
Hospital scenes
Brooklyn Naval Hospital, DRM with Margaret Long and others, 1898
Johns Hopkins Hospital
House staff, 1901
Operating room staff, circa 1900
Miscellaneous staff and patients, circa 1900
Residences
Kimball estate, n.d.
Talcottville house
Exterior, n.d.
North parlor, circa 1900
Falls, n.d.
Room in Wallace House at Smith College, 1893
Miscellaneous and unidentified
Elizabeth Blackwell (photo of drawing), 1951
U.S. Navy ship "Dolphin," n.d.
Unidentified people standing at bow of ship, n.d.
Unidentified, n.d.
Genealogical material: notes, family trees, handwritten manuscript connecting DRM to Dudley and Bradstreet families, n.d.
Elizabeth Reed Furbish (DRM's sister) and family: newspaper clippings, notes, and wedding invitations, 1892-1924
Adaline Talcott Kimball (DRM's maternal grandmother)
Correspondence, 1831-50, n.d.
Poems and sketches, 1825-37, n.d.
Hannibal Kimball (DRM's maternal grandfather): correspondence, 1829-62, n.d.
Charles Elwood Mendenhall (DRM's husband): biographies, business cards, correspondence, diary, invitations, newspaper clippings, notes, travel descriptions, programs from memorial service, and wedding invitation, 1884-1935
John Talcott Mendenhall (DRM's third son): hair clippings, 1914
Margaret Mendenhall (DRM's daughter): plaque, 1907
Richard Mendenhall (DRM's first son): newspaper clippings, notes, poem, and sympathy letters, 1908-10
Thomas Corwin Mendenhall Jr. (DRM's second son): hair clippings, newspaper clippings, poem and telegram, 1911-38, n.d.
Grace Kimball Reed (DRM's mother): correspondence, and wedding invitation, 1867-81, n.d.
William Reed, Sr. (DRM's father): correspondence, family history, genealogical notes, journal, wallet, and wedding invitation, 1858-72, n.d.
William Reed, Jr. and Gloria Reed (DRM's brother and sister-in-law): correspondence, n.d.
Talcott family papers
Correspondence, 1833-1860
Legal and financial records for Furbish/Kimball/Reed/Talcott estates: correspondence, deeds, investments, lists, mortgages, patent, plot plans, and receipts, 1811-1930s, n.d.
Miscellaneous: commissions, newspaper clippings, notes, petitions, school records, sewing pattern, and notes, 1805-60, n.d.
Furbish, Dorothy, Hart, and Ordway, 1911-57, n.d.
Furbish, Elizabeth Reed, 1891-99, n.d.
Mendenhall, Charles Elwood, 1901-35
Mendenhall, Cornelia Baker, 1938-1960
Mendenhall, John Talcott, 1919-45, 1957
Mendenhall, Sally Cornell, 1946-49
Mendenhall, Thomas, Sr. and Susan, 1911-23, n.d.
Mendenhall, Thomas Corwin, Jr.
Reed, Grace Kimball, 1896-1911
Reed, William, Jr., 1892-1911
Friends and Associates
General, (including sympathy letters after CEM's 1935 death), 1888-1960, n.d.
Baldwin, Dr. J.F., 1900-01
Bigelow, Sophia, 1936-56, n.d.
Cummings, Mabel, 1935-57
Fast, Louisa K., 1897, 1927-35, n.d.
Hart, Merwin, 1918, 1935
Hubbard, Lila M., 1891
Kenyon, Josephine H., 1937
Lamonte, Helen, 1932-50s
Lee, Laura Billings, 1902
Long, John D., 1898
Long, Margaret, 1898-1957
MacCallum, William G., 1906, 1941, n.d.
Osler, William, 1900-04
Pratt, Elsie Seelye, 1935-57
Sharp, Bertha, 1936, n.d.
Smith, Dr. Mary A., 1902-03
Thomas, M. Carey, 1901
Welch, William, 1900-03
Wilson, Edmund, 1955-57
Young, Karl, 1930-35
Other, n.d.
Babies Hospital of New York City: certificate of recognition, correspondence, formulary, lists, questionnaire, programs, and report, 1903-37
Brooklyn Naval Hospital: correspondence, endorsement, Hippocratic oath, newspaper clipping, notes, and photographs, 1898
Johns Hopkins University Hospital: correspondence, invitations, lists, notebook, notes, and prescriptions, 1900-02
United States Children's Bureau
Civil Service Commission ratings, 1917-31
Correspondence (includes Julia Lathrop, Grace Abbott, and Katharine Lenroot), 1917-32
Printed material, 1919-49
Proceedings of the Child Health Recovery Conference, Washington, D.C., 6 October 1933
Miscellaneous: appointment letter, identification card, memoranda, newspaper clipping, notes, pass, printed material, and receipts, 1924-28, n.d.
University of Chicago: outlines, 1930s
University of Wisconsin
College of Agriculture, Extension Division, Home Study Course: instruction papers, 1915
Department of Home Economics
Examinations, 1931-47
Lectures, 1938-39
Notes, 1926-45
Syllabi, 1936-45
Summer school: syllabi, 1930-37
Utah State Agricultural College: correspondence, 1938
Visiting Nurse Association Child Health Centers
Correspondence, 1928-49
Directory, 1949-50
Minutes, 1933
Newspaper clippings, 1948-50
Recommendations, 1936, n.d.
Reports, 1925-50, n.d.
Wisconsin Board of Health: certificate of registration, growth chart, and printed material, 1934-56
"The Bacillus Pseudo-Tuberculosis Murium: Its Streptothrix Forms and Pathogenic Action," in Contributions to the Science of Medicine and Johns Hopkins Hospital Reports, Vol. ix (1901): drawings, photographs, and printed material
"A Case of Acute Lymphatic Leukaemia Without Enlargement of the Lymph Glands," American Journal of the Medical Sciences, (Oct 1902): drawings, photographs, and printed material
"On the Pathological Changes in Hodgkin's Disease with Special Reference to its Relation to Tuberculosis," in Johns Hopkins Hospital Reports, Vol. X, Nos. 3, 4, 5 (1902) : drawings, photographs, and printed material
"Work of the Extension Department in Educating the Mother Along the Lines of Prenatal Care and Infant Hygiene," Transactions Seventh Annual Meeting, American Association for the Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality, Milwaukee, (19-20 Oct 1916)
"Bathing the Baby," and "Prenatal Care," University of Wisconsin University Extension Division pamphlets, (1916)
"List of Books and Pamphlets on Infant Welfare," with Elva L. Bascom, Wisconsin Library Commission, Madison, Wisconsin, (1916)
Review of Louis Fischer's The Health Care of the Growing Child, Funk & Wagnalls Co, published in The Survey, 19 August 1916
"Prenatal and Natal Conditions in Wisconsin," Wisconsin Medical Journal, Volume XV, No. 10 (March 1917)
"What to Feed the Children," with Amy L. Daniels, Extension Service of the College of Agriculture, University of Wisconsin (April 1917, February 1924, June 1927, and June 1930)
"Milk: The Indispensable Food for Children," U.S. Department of Labor, Children's Bureau, (1918)
"A Memorandum on Milk," American Journal of the Medical Sciences," Vol. CLVI, No. 5 (Oct 1918)
"Child Welfare and the Milk Problem," The Child (London), V. 9, No. 2, (Nov 1918)
"The Work of the Children's Bureau," Smith Alumnae Quarterly (May 1919)
"Minimum Standards of Prenatal Care: The Least a Mother Should Do Before Her Baby is Born," U.S. Department of Labor, Children's Bureau (1923)
"Preventative Feeding for Mothers and Infants," Journal of Home Economics, Vol. 16, No. 10 (October 1924)
"Madison and Its Pre-School Day: The Results of a Study Under Parent-Teacher Auspices," Child Health Magazine (Jan 1925)
"What Builds Babies? The Pregnant Mother's Diet in the Pregnant and Nursing Periods," U.S. Department of Labor, Children's Bureau (1925, 1933): correspondence, drafts, notes, printed material, 1925-33
"Milk: The Indispensable Food for Children," U.S. Department of Labor Children's Bureau Publication No. 163 (1926)
"What is Happening to Mothers and Babies in the District of Columbia," U.S. Department of Labor Children's Bureau (1928)
"Midwifery in Denmark," U.S. Department of Labor, Children's Bureau, pamphlet (1929): contacts, correspondence, drafts, notes, tables, 1926-29
"Hemoglobin Content of the Blood of Infants," with C.A. Elvehjem and W.H. Peterson, American Journal of Diseases of Children, Vol. 46 (Jul 1933)
"Effect of Iron and Copper Therapy on Hemoglobin Content of the Blood of Infants," American Journal of Diseases of Children, Vol. 50 (Jul 1935)
"Iron Versus Iron and Copper in the Treatment of Anemia in Infants," with C.A. Elvehjem and Dorothy Duckles, American Journal of Diseases of Children (1937)
OVERSIZE MATERIALS
SERIES I. BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL
Honorary doctorate: diploma, 1930
Johns Hopkins University
Drawing, circa 1900
Physician's license, state of Wisconsin, 1916
Certificate of appointment as U.S. delegate to the Fifth English-speaking Conference on Maternity and Child Welfare in London, issued by the U.S. State Department, Apr 1929
Memorabilia
Drawing, 1889
Garden plan, 1927
Portrait of Dr. William Welch, n.d.
SERIES II. FAMILY
Legal and financial records for Furbish/Kimball/Reed/Talcott estates:
Patent, 1811
Plot plans, n.d.
Miscellaneous
Commissions, 1805-17
Petition, 1824
Sewing pattern, n.d.
SERIES IV. PROFESSIONAL MATERIAL
Babies' Hospital of New York City: certificate of recognition, 1906
SERIES V. PUBLICATIONS
Midwifery in Denmark: tables, circa 1929